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he had contempt for romney and yet just absolute utter contempt and yet that was getting in his way. >> the only thing he had more contempt for than romney was this thing that we've seen throughout his administration, this enormous comment for the theatrics of politics. the thing he hates about debates this is all just stagey, fake hystrionics. i'm barack obama. i'm above that. disdain for romney and the process leads him to this horrible place where 36 hours before the debate they've sit down with him and stage what they call an intervention. three his top advisors saying, mr. president u-need to embrace this event. what's wrong with you. he suite there's and gives a ten minute self-deconstruction where he says i'm not wired in the way that this requires. i don't know if i can do this. >> here's your quote. you keep telling me i can't spend too much time defending my record and that i should talk about my plans, he said. but my plans aren't anything like the plans i ran on in 2008. i had a universal health care plan then. now i've got what? a manufacturing plan? what am i going to d
he had contempt for romney and yet just absolute utter contempt and yet that was getting in his way. >> the only thing he had more contempt for than romney was this thing that we've seen throughout his administration, this enormous comment for the theatrics of politics. the thing he hates about debates this is all just stagey, fake hystrionics. i'm barack obama. i'm above that. disdain for romney and the process leads him to this horrible place where 36 hours before the debate they've sit...
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mitt romney killed my wife. remember that commercial? he was such a beast, a horrible human being. mitt romney killed my wife. barack obama believed that. >> obama did not claim that. the president did not say that. >> hillary clinton wasn't running against him in 2012. >> this commercial was put together by some sort of arm. >> somebody very close to barack obama. barack obama takes responsibility, the buck stops with barack obama. >> okay. >> barack obama and his campaign and people connected to his campaign and people closely associated with him in the past claimed that mitt romney killed a woman. >> okay. the story is bad enough, you don't need to do that. >> can i please make my point? i'm going to say it again, barack obama, his campaign, they all claimed in 2012. it was one of the most horrific claims that mitt romney killed a man's wife. >> i remember condemning the commercial as well. >> mika, i'm going to keep doing this, okay? so, in 2012, barack obama claimed that mitt romney killed a woman. yesterda
mitt romney killed my wife. remember that commercial? he was such a beast, a horrible human being. mitt romney killed my wife. barack obama believed that. >> obama did not claim that. the president did not say that. >> hillary clinton wasn't running against him in 2012. >> this commercial was put together by some sort of arm. >> somebody very close to barack obama. barack obama takes responsibility, the buck stops with barack obama. >> okay. >> barack obama...
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>> mika, the romneys are back in the news! >> that is kind of weird. i'm having a dream and then look at this! >> oh, my god. okay. there is so much news to cover. >> i'm walking dead. that is freaky, man. the romney's are back in the news. >> they were staug about the scandals in white house. take a look. >> i think there is breach of trust that we, as all americans, feel right now with our governments. if we look at the three scandals that are going on right now, and in particular i saw the polling numbers with -- how people upset with the irs scandal, is we have to have trust in our government. we have to ble that they are doing the right for us. we feel like they are breaking our trust. it's deeply troubling. >> i turn to the bus driver and i'm saying, what are you doing? >> yeah. what are you doing? >> mitt -- >> what is he doing? what is he doing? >> i don't know. i don't really know. >> mitt romney is also back in the public spotlight revealing plans to campaign for 2014 republican candidates. in an interview with the "the wall street journal" r
>> mika, the romneys are back in the news! >> that is kind of weird. i'm having a dream and then look at this! >> oh, my god. okay. there is so much news to cover. >> i'm walking dead. that is freaky, man. the romney's are back in the news. >> they were staug about the scandals in white house. take a look. >> i think there is breach of trust that we, as all americans, feel right now with our governments. if we look at the three scandals that are going on...
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then mitt romney came out -- >> then mitt romney talked. >> with his own words, revealed in september, seemingly and vividly and confirming his own words and mouth caught on videotape all the caricatu caricatures -- >> at 47%, we focus on that. we forget this is a guy -- katel greatest hits for democratic ad makers. i like firing people. won a big victory in florida and the next morning go on a cable news show and say something equally shocking. i'm not concerned about the very poor. >> for me, the 47% video was so -- it was shocking in its brutal honesty, but also how he was able to devery half the country. i don't have to worry about those folks, those folks are freeloaders, looking for a handout, they don't know personal responsibility. these are the people he, one, hopes to lead, and, two, you would think he would want their votes. the next day, he doubled down on that and then a week later tried to pull it back. so for the american people to see someone to be president of the united states insult them, that was the one thing that put the lid on -- >> probably not a good marketing
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romney and all the romney kids are incredibly angry. this was totally overshadowed. >> the morning after. all the talk radio people who were calling this ripos, you can tell you are not a real republican and conservative. i said we sucked at the republican convention. democrats blew us away and all of these people in talk radio that said i was not loyal to my party. this happened time and time and time again. at the same time i was saying it. the romney people were not only saying it. they were vomiting back stage. >> after the talk radio hosts, they got the letters of apology. >> just the difference between a man super excited to meet a famous person and has deep six convention and a man who is above it all and doesn't care. what are you going to take? what are you going to take? i'm just saying. seriously. that's scary. >> he did win that second debate, but he pulled it together. >> all right, man. you guys. this is good stuff. i think you made up most of it, but that's okay. >> double down. mark and john. thanks. business before the
romney and all the romney kids are incredibly angry. this was totally overshadowed. >> the morning after. all the talk radio people who were calling this ripos, you can tell you are not a real republican and conservative. i said we sucked at the republican convention. democrats blew us away and all of these people in talk radio that said i was not loyal to my party. this happened time and time and time again. at the same time i was saying it. the romney people were not only saying it....
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we hammered mitt romney and rand paul. and marco rubio. >> that's my point. you will have rubio give a response to the president. this is the problem. does this make any sense to have a bifurcated message to come out tonight? the fact of the matter is you have two images in contrast to the president of the united states as cokie put out and the split message, i don't know how they coordinate. >> we are a split party. >> we are, but it's supposed to be unified. >> right now we have half of the party. it was like the conservative movement from 60 to 64 who decided we would rather lose with gold water than win with nixon or win with rockefeller. that is you talked to a lot of people and a lot of my friends who would much rather lose. >> if that's the motive going forward and he's always going to pivot off of what we see on the screen. this screen that gives him the advantage. >> cokie, compare where the republican party is. i know you were in kindergarten in the 60s so you don't remember this, but let's compare to where it was from 60 to 68. >> what many of the
we hammered mitt romney and rand paul. and marco rubio. >> that's my point. you will have rubio give a response to the president. this is the problem. does this make any sense to have a bifurcated message to come out tonight? the fact of the matter is you have two images in contrast to the president of the united states as cokie put out and the split message, i don't know how they coordinate. >> we are a split party. >> we are, but it's supposed to be unified. >> right...
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saying that if most of the independents were breaking mitt romney's way should mitt romney win. of course he didn't because more democrats came out. that independent line has been leaning more republican over the past four years. the fact that we're losing those voters, puts numbers, nicole, to all the things i've been saying for five years if you want to win the philadelphia suburbs, if you want to win the i-4 corridor in florida, if you want to win presidential elections and stop hillary clinton from being president over the next eight years so republicans have back-to-back some say the white house that middle line the republicans are bleeding support on that has real world effect. maybe not in the most conservative house districts in america -- >> most conservative states. where we've done well, if you turn it around and look at the year scott brown won or 2010 when republicans did well it was because that number was the exact inverse, it was because close to 80% of independents decide with republicans. to go back to my alternate reality if we were having a discussion about h
saying that if most of the independents were breaking mitt romney's way should mitt romney win. of course he didn't because more democrats came out. that independent line has been leaning more republican over the past four years. the fact that we're losing those voters, puts numbers, nicole, to all the things i've been saying for five years if you want to win the philadelphia suburbs, if you want to win the i-4 corridor in florida, if you want to win presidential elections and stop hillary...
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we had stories of the romneys being so insulated that even on election night ann romney was sure what she was seeing on the news was wrong. they believed they were going to win up until the end. on the other side, talk to david axelrod for three months, david is going, we're going to win by four points. after the first debate we're going to win by four points. they were so cold heartedly calculated on the obama side, i say that in a positive way, whereas the the romneys were still believing what they were hearing inside the bubble, that's after the race was over. >> david plouffe told me eight or nine months before the election, he said, we'll win more than 300 electoral votes at a time when people thought it was going to be a much closer race. here's what happened. the romney team was very confident at the end. when i talked to governor romney last january for the book he said i was quite confident on election day, not 90% confident but they thought they were going to win. on the very day of the election, hours before the polls closed, paul ryan was talking to people about immediatel
we had stories of the romneys being so insulated that even on election night ann romney was sure what she was seeing on the news was wrong. they believed they were going to win up until the end. on the other side, talk to david axelrod for three months, david is going, we're going to win by four points. after the first debate we're going to win by four points. they were so cold heartedly calculated on the obama side, i say that in a positive way, whereas the the romneys were still believing...
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we said this a lot during the campaign when we were talking about some of the romney tax cut proposals. but let's look at this from a progressive perspective -- see, it's starting to hit me -- >> there you go, the vodka. >> you know, as senator coburn says, if we don't do some common sense rational things, in 20 years or in 15 years or even in 10 years, we're going to have a budget that is completely taken up by entitlements in the pentagon. and that will be the only thing we're capable of funding. it's the only thing we'll be able to use the power of some progressive government to try to change. you can't be -- i don't think you can be a really good advocate for education, if at the same time, you also don't make a powerful argument to get our priorities in order and make sure that we're capable, as a society, of responding to what we need to, because we are not fixed into a budget math problem that is so intractable as senator coburn says, that we sort of just drive off the edge. >> and michael, we have no money for discretionary domestic spending to invest in education, infrastructu
we said this a lot during the campaign when we were talking about some of the romney tax cut proposals. but let's look at this from a progressive perspective -- see, it's starting to hit me -- >> there you go, the vodka. >> you know, as senator coburn says, if we don't do some common sense rational things, in 20 years or in 15 years or even in 10 years, we're going to have a budget that is completely taken up by entitlements in the pentagon. and that will be the only thing we're...
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last year's campaign when the president went after mitt romney for his tax rate. at an event at virginia beach the president said this. quote. my opponent thinks that someone who makes $20 million a year like him should pay a lower tax rate than a cop or teacher who makes 50,000. president obama released his tax return this week showing that he paid an 18% tax rate. so a guy who i hear is worth $14 million, he is paying a tax rate far lower than what a teacher pays. i'm speaking slowly so this sinks in, andy, the hypocrisy is mind boggling. that this president plays class war fare for a year and a half on the campaign trail. let's keep this graphic up. he attacks mitt romney for paying a lower tax rate than school teachers repeatedly! democrats repeatedly attack mitt romney for paying a lower tax rate than teachers, than warren buffett secretary, god help her, god bless her, and, yet, this president, after demagoguing this issue for a year and a half, pays an 18% tax rate which, by the way, is half of the tax rate that i pay. i would guess it's half of the tax rat
last year's campaign when the president went after mitt romney for his tax rate. at an event at virginia beach the president said this. quote. my opponent thinks that someone who makes $20 million a year like him should pay a lower tax rate than a cop or teacher who makes 50,000. president obama released his tax return this week showing that he paid an 18% tax rate. so a guy who i hear is worth $14 million, he is paying a tax rate far lower than what a teacher pays. i'm speaking slowly so this...
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and you're forgiving him while you lit into romney and the media lit into romney for a month and now you are hypocritically, and i will say it, hypocritically giving this man a pass because he's a democrat you're cheering for. >> no, we're saying it's a disappointing photograph. >> no, you guys are trying to apologize for him after absolutely savaging mitt romney over binders. you mocked romney every day here, every single day for an offhanded comment in a debate. >> simmer down. >> no, i'm not going to simmer down. the hypocrisy is ridiculous. and you guys can keep trying to talk your way out of the box you're in. you just make yourself look silly. >> no, we can't because you have to stop talking for us to do that. so i will tell you that first of all, if you look at what this president did when he came into office the first thing he did -- >> quit saying that. quit saying that. you say that every day. he won't apply those standards. >> i can't even finish the sentence. >> he wants other people to do to his own cabinet? >> the first thing he did, as president -- >> i've heard this.
and you're forgiving him while you lit into romney and the media lit into romney for a month and now you are hypocritically, and i will say it, hypocritically giving this man a pass because he's a democrat you're cheering for. >> no, we're saying it's a disappointing photograph. >> no, you guys are trying to apologize for him after absolutely savaging mitt romney over binders. you mocked romney every day here, every single day for an offhanded comment in a debate. >> simmer...
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mitt romney won this district by 18 percentage points. you all have made a foolish, foolish decision. and you better hope that you get a chance too fix it before the 2014 elections because another poll in this district that mitt romney won by 18% in this ppp poll said that by a two to one margin, voters were less likely to vote for republicans in the future because of their vote on background checks. i've said it all along. i've warned the nra from the beginning, give a pass on this legislation you've supported before. don't put your feet in cement because you're going to get knocked over. you're going to get beaten to a pulp politically. and you are. can you believe this, willie? >> this is too easy. it's not even risky for you to say. >> who are these fools on capitol hill who bury their head in the sand and are in the minority in one of the most conservative districts in one of the most conservative states in america and go with wayne lapierre instead of ronald reagan, who are these fools that listen to survivalists and cower in the co
mitt romney won this district by 18 percentage points. you all have made a foolish, foolish decision. and you better hope that you get a chance too fix it before the 2014 elections because another poll in this district that mitt romney won by 18% in this ppp poll said that by a two to one margin, voters were less likely to vote for republicans in the future because of their vote on background checks. i've said it all along. i've warned the nra from the beginning, give a pass on this legislation...
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republicans in new york who were such an important part of financing the romney campaign, of financing any national republican campaigns, are really unhappy with republicans. there's the bait-sick issue, the fact that they don't think they got much return on their investment in the 2012 race, but also even since then, republicans up in new york feel like republicans down here have been rubbing it in. the continued emphasis on social issue, holding up sandy aid in the house really irritated a lot of the top donors up in new york. and they feel that the party is not doing enough to diversify. in new york, diversity is a part of your daily life to a lot of republicans, it's very exotic. so as senate candidates, as national republicans go up to new york, they're finding real pushback on giving the way that they did before. senator rob portman of ohio is sort of the senate republicans' ambassador to wall street. he recently did 12 meetings in two days up there. and he got a lot of pushback. they want to be sure that there are candidates that can win and that the party is going to have a dif
republicans in new york who were such an important part of financing the romney campaign, of financing any national republican campaigns, are really unhappy with republicans. there's the bait-sick issue, the fact that they don't think they got much return on their investment in the 2012 race, but also even since then, republicans up in new york feel like republicans down here have been rubbing it in. the continued emphasis on social issue, holding up sandy aid in the house really irritated a...
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so failed presidential candidate mitt romney is speaking. >> old on. did willie -- i wasn't -- did he win or lose? >> lost by a nose. >> lost by a nose. >> former alaska governor sarah palin has a slot. >> she's -- willie -- >> another nose, four years previously. >> she lost. >> former senator rick santorum. >> he won something, i think. >> oh, my lord. freshman senator ted cruz. i don't even have anything new yorky to say. i am really sorry. >> why are you sorry? >> i feel bad. >> as a democrat you should feel good. >> i feel bad, too. this is pathetic. other speakers include rumor ed 2016 president jeb bush. >> that's good. >> bobby jindal. >> rand paul and paul ryan. >> that's good. this is fascinating. it shows just how sick some elements of the conservative movement are. >> want me to read stewart stevens. >> how is nsular they are. with chris christie, i wrote about this last week, why should conservatives like christie, after all he's done nothing conservative over the last four years, nothing other than declaring war over extreme government bo
so failed presidential candidate mitt romney is speaking. >> old on. did willie -- i wasn't -- did he win or lose? >> lost by a nose. >> lost by a nose. >> former alaska governor sarah palin has a slot. >> she's -- willie -- >> another nose, four years previously. >> she lost. >> former senator rick santorum. >> he won something, i think. >> oh, my lord. freshman senator ted cruz. i don't even have anything new yorky to say. i am...
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meanwhile, in new hampshire, mitt romney had some tough talk r
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they'd better -- just like i said with romney in september, they'd better turn this ship around quickly, or we're going to have a democratic monopoly in washington, d.c., on january the 4th, 2015. >> as we say in tv, joe, that's exactly right, joe. i mean, it's possible -- >> joe, you're absolutely right. >> it's possible they can turn it around, but if you're talking about leadership within congress or a governor or someone who's thinking of running for president in 2016, it is easy politically to kick the republican congress, easy shots like chris christie took, but there's also a substantive case to make. and you can elevate yourself high sky if you're jindal or christie or jeb bush not taking a gratuitous shot but saying here's what's wrong with my party now. >> your column "crazy doesn't win," but there's still these elements of crazy. sorry. >> i interviewed this fellow scott garrity from cnbc. i said what are you going to do about sandy? accountability issue. this is a jersey congressman, accountability issue. accountability? i have friends whose houses are now a mile below where
they'd better -- just like i said with romney in september, they'd better turn this ship around quickly, or we're going to have a democratic monopoly in washington, d.c., on january the 4th, 2015. >> as we say in tv, joe, that's exactly right, joe. i mean, it's possible -- >> joe, you're absolutely right. >> it's possible they can turn it around, but if you're talking about leadership within congress or a governor or someone who's thinking of running for president in 2016, it...
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he should look at the last three months of 2011 and the romney campaign. because the further that mitt romney walked to the right in the primaries, he realized he couldn't get back. and marco rubio can't get back now. he's gone so far right on some issues. and he's so confused on a couple of other issues. but the most interesting aspect of the republican party, at least i find it the most interesting aspect, part of it occurred here yesterday, steve. tom cole was on. congressman cole was on. followed by senator saxby chambliss. listening to obama's proposals and everything. the division within the republican party is really, really interesting. >> no question but i think -- i agree with everything joe said about people who have been in congress for an hour and then deciding to run for president. i think there is one distinction between these guys and president obama. which is particularly ted cruz and rand paul, they're way out there on the fringe of -- ideologically of their own party, let alone america. obama, call him liberal, what you want, but not on
he should look at the last three months of 2011 and the romney campaign. because the further that mitt romney walked to the right in the primaries, he realized he couldn't get back. and marco rubio can't get back now. he's gone so far right on some issues. and he's so confused on a couple of other issues. but the most interesting aspect of the republican party, at least i find it the most interesting aspect, part of it occurred here yesterday, steve. tom cole was on. congressman cole was on....
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mitt romney was right, you all do not care about the 47%. shame on you! >> all right. for decades the inclusion of food stamps bridged urban and rural interests in congress, but both sides have sparred over the provisions. the bill heads back to the senate where members will try to reconcile the two chambers plans. barack obama has vowed to veto any bill that does not cover the food stamp program. joe? >> gene robinson, this is how actually it used to be southern democrats and northeast urban democrats would be able to pass a farm bill together because urban democrats hated the farm subsidies where you pay farmers not to plant crops and the southern democrats didn't really care about food stamps. that has been divided now and breaks up this coalition. >> well, it breaking balls it up. you're absolutely right. this was a marriage of convenience of these issues and it was a way for congress re reliably to get two things done that everyone agreed needed to be done. and it shows what happens when, you know, frankly the new republicans have come in and successfully disrupte
mitt romney was right, you all do not care about the 47%. shame on you! >> all right. for decades the inclusion of food stamps bridged urban and rural interests in congress, but both sides have sparred over the provisions. the bill heads back to the senate where members will try to reconcile the two chambers plans. barack obama has vowed to veto any bill that does not cover the food stamp program. joe? >> gene robinson, this is how actually it used to be southern democrats and...
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a former staffer for the romney campaign sells e tells us quote, business leaders that i talk to, many of whom supported senator lee would never support his re-election and in fact will work. lee looks vulnerable to aling challenge from within his party. be you the real danger could be a calgary in the general election from the right kind of moderate democrat t. article goes on the say, neither mr. lee or the state gop are showing signs of thriving financially, as many of the big state do nors look elsewhere. >> that speaks to a bigger trend, where campaign committees have far outweighed themselves. >> look at the numbers. you can't just blame it on the government shutdown:00 lot of guy, mainly rich guy, give a lot of money carl rove. they heard a lot of promise, hey, the republicans are winning the media is biassed. they're not telling the poll. look at the drudge in the gallup poll and da, da, da, da, da. which if you are writing those huge checks they were writing, then it ends up your guys got it all wrong, so, yes. >> it makes the next day all awkward. >> yes. put those numbers up
a former staffer for the romney campaign sells e tells us quote, business leaders that i talk to, many of whom supported senator lee would never support his re-election and in fact will work. lee looks vulnerable to aling challenge from within his party. be you the real danger could be a calgary in the general election from the right kind of moderate democrat t. article goes on the say, neither mr. lee or the state gop are showing signs of thriving financially, as many of the big state do nors...
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romney and their campaign, romney run a mad man campaign filled with 60-year-old ad makers based on a vague and unscientific hope and change theme. tell us more about that. >> well, the madman name actually came from stuart stevenson, the romney chief strategist. he hired what he considered to be an all-star team of ad makers even the fact that they were ad makers was a little bit of an old frame on the campaign. but a couple of them actually went back to ronald reagan's famous re-election campaign in 1984 and these guys were like retired baseball players coming back. meanwhile, in chicago, it was 27-year-olds in what they called the cave which was the secret antics to the obama chicago headquarters that nobody allowed in. working algorithms. you had essentially chicago running a numbers campaign. remember, mitt romney said i'm about analystics. obama was doing that and meanwhile, romney was running a change of hope and change and people were sick of obama and want to make a change. there was this peculiar role reversal at the heart of the campaign. >> weird. some of the biggest revel
romney and their campaign, romney run a mad man campaign filled with 60-year-old ad makers based on a vague and unscientific hope and change theme. tell us more about that. >> well, the madman name actually came from stuart stevenson, the romney chief strategist. he hired what he considered to be an all-star team of ad makers even the fact that they were ad makers was a little bit of an old frame on the campaign. but a couple of them actually went back to ronald reagan's famous...
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romney against the field f. there had been a more plausible conservative, it's quite conceivable you would have had a showdown between a serious, more conservative populist republican than romney. i think the good news, that whole list, you look at that two ways, hillary clinton dominated, extremely well known, formidable candidate. you look at it another way, what six republicans in their early 40s the oldest person on that list is christie, probably, except for jeb bush. don't you want to be the party with a younger generation as opposed, mrs. clinton, former secretary, former first lady. i like republican prospects if 2016 with that kind of field. they're have a vigorous primary dewitt. that's happened before. >> they're doing a good job prepping themselves. >> thank you. we'll see you, not on the daily run. i tend to like experience. >> that's why you were a big supporter of barak obama if 28. >> i was the one to say very first on the set of "morning joe" that you all were idiots to laugh at the concept of h
romney against the field f. there had been a more plausible conservative, it's quite conceivable you would have had a showdown between a serious, more conservative populist republican than romney. i think the good news, that whole list, you look at that two ways, hillary clinton dominated, extremely well known, formidable candidate. you look at it another way, what six republicans in their early 40s the oldest person on that list is christie, probably, except for jeb bush. don't you want to be...
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one thing about romney, he wants to engage in the national scene. he's a business guy. cpac, that's where he ended his campaign in 2008. >> gave a great speech. >> it was humble, it was real, and i think that actually catapulted him to the nomination in '12. his speech in february 2012 of course severely conservative, not a great moment. '08 moment he's remembers. >> i hope they've a great time. ann romney, i think she was terribly misunderstood. >> she's great. >> thank you very much. next, open up the checkbook, red sox fans. the bloody sock being auctioned online. that's disgusting. how much would someone pay for a piece of history? shactman's with us next. ♪ for tapping into a wealth of experience. for access to one of the top wealth management firms in the country. for a team of financial professionals who provide customized solutions. for all of your wealth management and retirement goals, discover how pnc wealth management can help you achieve. visit pnc.com/wealthsolutions to find out more. try e-mail marketing from constantcontact. it's the fastest, easiest w
one thing about romney, he wants to engage in the national scene. he's a business guy. cpac, that's where he ended his campaign in 2008. >> gave a great speech. >> it was humble, it was real, and i think that actually catapulted him to the nomination in '12. his speech in february 2012 of course severely conservative, not a great moment. '08 moment he's remembers. >> i hope they've a great time. ann romney, i think she was terribly misunderstood. >> she's great. >>...
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and i think ann romney -- mitt romney's the candidate, but she got -- i think she was so poorly -- >> she's still angry. it takes years to get over -- i mean, i think al gore is still getting over his loss. i mean, it takes years to get over losing a presidential campaign. and it's hard -- i mean, i think it's still pretty raw for them. lots of discussions were had around this table in realtime on what went wrong. what we're rehashing now. it is hard to watch, you know, especially the family. especially ann romney. >> you know, the bushes were obviously very good at it. george w. bush continues to show remarkable, remarkable restraint and grace just like his father. >> yeah. >> let's go on to the news. >> as the dow hovers near record highs, there is a troubling question, why isn't unemployment dropping more quickly? "the new york times" reporting major corporations often engines of job growth have seen soaring profits but haven't been adding to their work force. in the third quarter of 2012, corporate profits accounted for over 14% of the national income. its largest share in more th
and i think ann romney -- mitt romney's the candidate, but she got -- i think she was so poorly -- >> she's still angry. it takes years to get over -- i mean, i think al gore is still getting over his loss. i mean, it takes years to get over losing a presidential campaign. and it's hard -- i mean, i think it's still pretty raw for them. lots of discussions were had around this table in realtime on what went wrong. what we're rehashing now. it is hard to watch, you know, especially the...
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. >> a year ago during the end of the campaign, during the mitt romney campaign, i was getting it all from the far right because they were angry and they were desperate and they wanted to lash out and blame everybody and say polls were -- i'm hearing now from some of these people, you know, the polls are wrong and they're racist and they're this and that, i think -- i think there is right now a desperation from many people that believe the passing of the affordable care act was the launching of this progre progressive revolution and finally was going to be the next wave of the great society. it is right now, right now it appears to be in shambles and right now that appears to be a real setback for big government and progressives. that could change. that could change. i'm just saying, republicans i guess, peeling off of this article what i'm saying is, republicans should do no harm politically. they should do no harm. they don't need to go out screaming and yelling and saying horrible things about barack obama. >> just sit and wait for whatever is going to happen to happen to whatever
. >> a year ago during the end of the campaign, during the mitt romney campaign, i was getting it all from the far right because they were angry and they were desperate and they wanted to lash out and blame everybody and say polls were -- i'm hearing now from some of these people, you know, the polls are wrong and they're racist and they're this and that, i think -- i think there is right now a desperation from many people that believe the passing of the affordable care act was the...
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and it did with mitt romney. it doomed him. >> i actually think that the one body that can address this for republicans and improve -- head off the nightmare scenario that mike has spelled out are congressional republicans. if we're having this debate in january of 2016 in the context -- in the frame of a presidential primary, we're done. congress has to address it, and it has to be addressed in the next year or two. the problem is, the incentives for members of congress to address it are different than a presidential candidate because they are more worried, many of them, not all of them, some of them are more worried than a primary challenge than they are a general election fight. >> wait for the phone calls, though. wait for the phone calls when some groups on the far right just ginning this up and start talking about what we're hearing right now, whether it's from rush limbaugh for "the national review," and those calls are going to start coming in 10-1 against immigration reform, and house members are going t
and it did with mitt romney. it doomed him. >> i actually think that the one body that can address this for republicans and improve -- head off the nightmare scenario that mike has spelled out are congressional republicans. if we're having this debate in january of 2016 in the context -- in the frame of a presidential primary, we're done. congress has to address it, and it has to be addressed in the next year or two. the problem is, the incentives for members of congress to address it are...
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romney campaign woke up believing they're going to win. the reason conservatives kept yelling to me from september on saying, you're rooting for obama. no, their campaign stinks. they have to do this, this, this, and they're not doing it. they were inside the bubble. they thought i was from mars. or at least msnbc. i was right, they were wrong. why? because they were in the bubble. they were preaching to the choir. you know, if i'm a candidate in a general election and i want to get my message out, the last thing i want is to just preach to my choir. that's a recipe for failure again. >> it makes sense. the argument from conservatives would be when a democrat preaches to the choir, it's a larger choir. they would say it's the whole media. that's not enough to win a broad national election. >> if i'm running a republican primary, there's no place i want to be other than fox news. nothing else, i mean, ton me, would matter. a national primary. a news channel. i want to be on fox news. but if i'm a party that is shrinking and who has lost 5 o
romney campaign woke up believing they're going to win. the reason conservatives kept yelling to me from september on saying, you're rooting for obama. no, their campaign stinks. they have to do this, this, this, and they're not doing it. they were inside the bubble. they thought i was from mars. or at least msnbc. i was right, they were wrong. why? because they were in the bubble. they were preaching to the choir. you know, if i'm a candidate in a general election and i want to get my message...
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and last year by mitt romney. now loaded for bear for the race for 2016. i predict the hard right is going to take over the republican party in 2016 and the nomination is going to rand p l paul, you watch, this is what i do for a living. >> he could not -- >> i do it too and i don't think that's happening. there's no doubt that rand paul is going -- rand paul, if you look at most polls in the early states, rand paul is going to have a big chunk of support but he's not going to win. >> joe, i don't know about that. i think rand paul offers a voice out there that -- very much like his dad -- taps into a new generation of folks coming in to politics. i have a piece up right now talking about his visit to howard university and the subtle messages that were overlooked in the way that conversation unfolded. he's doing some things that are staking out new ground for a potential run in 2016 that other people aren't doing. >> you think rand paul can win the republican nomination? >> pardon me? >> you think rand paul can win? >> i think legitimately as anyone else a
and last year by mitt romney. now loaded for bear for the race for 2016. i predict the hard right is going to take over the republican party in 2016 and the nomination is going to rand p l paul, you watch, this is what i do for a living. >> he could not -- >> i do it too and i don't think that's happening. there's no doubt that rand paul is going -- rand paul, if you look at most polls in the early states, rand paul is going to have a big chunk of support but he's not going to win....
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. >> then you hear some conservatives saying, well, we nominated relative moderates in mitt romney and john mccain and look what happened. chris christie should not be our nominee. how much stock do you put in that? >> well, this is where we get candidate skills. we talk about a political athlete here on "morning joe." and chris christie looks like he's right for the times, enjoys it. rudy just never had the connection. while the people around the table there were with rudy in diners in new hampshire, it just never took. chris christie, every indication is, is much better at that. that's what we heard yesterday talking on "meet the press," showing up, and he's going to do that, first focusing, though, on his new jersey record. he's going to be very smart about that over the next year. >> politico's mike allen with a look at the playbook. thanks so much. >>> coming up, the cincinnati bengals got a hail mary to take their game into overtime. could they come back to win it? "morning joe," highlights in the nfl, next. [ male announcer ] what if a small company became big business overnight
. >> then you hear some conservatives saying, well, we nominated relative moderates in mitt romney and john mccain and look what happened. chris christie should not be our nominee. how much stock do you put in that? >> well, this is where we get candidate skills. we talk about a political athlete here on "morning joe." and chris christie looks like he's right for the times, enjoys it. rudy just never had the connection. while the people around the table there were with...
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he's mitt romney, he's joe bi n biden. >> big loss. >> tough year for snl. let's go the political playbook. jim, let start with congressman steve king. he's doubling down now on comments that have reignited the debate over immigration reform. about a week ago he documented -- he compared undocumented immigrants who qualify under president obama's dream act to drug mules. >> there are kids that were brought into this country by their parents unknowing they were breaking the law and they will say to me and others who will defend the rule of law we have to do something about the 11 million, and some of them are val valedictorians. they were not all brought in by their parents. for everyone there's a valedictorian there's another one that weighs 130 pounds and they have calves the size of cantaloupes. i've seen with it my eyes. i unloaded the illegal drugs with my hands. the longer this dialogue goes the more the american people are is going to understand what i'm saying is factually correct, probably understated. >> jim, before we go to you for your assessment
he's mitt romney, he's joe bi n biden. >> big loss. >> tough year for snl. let's go the political playbook. jim, let start with congressman steve king. he's doubling down now on comments that have reignited the debate over immigration reform. about a week ago he documented -- he compared undocumented immigrants who qualify under president obama's dream act to drug mules. >> there are kids that were brought into this country by their parents unknowing they were breaking the law...
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mitt romney couldn't understand why am i doing so badly. maybe because you told them for a year you didn't like him. republicans have to lead the a very careful needle. they will have trouble putting through five or six individual bills in the house for a very simple reason. there's enough to say no caucus that won't vote for anything. they need democratic votes. so it's still a real kabuki dance. >> i think you're right because of the house. certainly democrats in the senate are going to have to accept a lot less than they want. you're not going to get -- you're not going to get citizenship through the house of representatives. >> legalization through. >> you'll get legalization through. democrats say if there's not a pathway to citizenship we're not going to support a bill. there's not a pathway to citizenship. >> senator reid i don't think will move a bill without a pathway to citizenship. >> the key figure in the house is paul ryan. now that paul ryan has been freed up from the budget battles, i think he wants to do it because he believ
mitt romney couldn't understand why am i doing so badly. maybe because you told them for a year you didn't like him. republicans have to lead the a very careful needle. they will have trouble putting through five or six individual bills in the house for a very simple reason. there's enough to say no caucus that won't vote for anything. they need democratic votes. so it's still a real kabuki dance. >> i think you're right because of the house. certainly democrats in the senate are going to...
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looking at what mitt romney did in massachusetts, because in massachusetts, mitt romney created the blueprint that became obama care nationally. one of the things they learned on implementation in massachusetts was employer coverage increased. all these issues -- what we have in terms of employers dumping employees from their coverage is more anecdotal than it is a trend. we have stories but i don't know we have a trend. i think we have a few companies seeing an opportunity to blame this on obama care and taking it. in massachusetts what they planned -- >> the delays are obviously good fodder for -- >> and these are big companies. you're talking about -- companies like u.p.s., you're talking about a huge payroll. >> how much has this been a trend before obama care? >> when i think about u.p.s., i think they are, if not the largest union employer, one of the largest union employers. you look at their competitor, which is not. you think, wow, they're already at a big disadvantage. it's not surprising they would try to find any incremental place to cut cost that they could. >> i did a small docu
looking at what mitt romney did in massachusetts, because in massachusetts, mitt romney created the blueprint that became obama care nationally. one of the things they learned on implementation in massachusetts was employer coverage increased. all these issues -- what we have in terms of employers dumping employees from their coverage is more anecdotal than it is a trend. we have stories but i don't know we have a trend. i think we have a few companies seeing an opportunity to blame this on...
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for a lot of republicans in the house of representatives who were not -- who will still look at mitt romney and correctly say this was a flawed candidate. >> right. >> he lost because he was a terrible candidate, ran a terrible campaign. don't try to make me make a vote in my district that i believe and people in my district believe are amnesty. >> there's the national versus the local republican mindset and in dan ball's new book, even romney advisers and i think romney himself admitted they probably went too far with the anti-immigration rhetoric, the self-deportation line was harmful. i want to pick up on andrea's point, which is that a lot of the excuses the house republicans are putting out there, just don't hold up. the border is probably more secure now, metrically more secure than any other time. $40 billion more to the border security is excessive. and the vast majority of illegal immigration comes from overstaying visas. you don't fix that throwing more people at the border or fences at the border. you have to do something else. the excuses put up are just a convenient way to say
for a lot of republicans in the house of representatives who were not -- who will still look at mitt romney and correctly say this was a flawed candidate. >> right. >> he lost because he was a terrible candidate, ran a terrible campaign. don't try to make me make a vote in my district that i believe and people in my district believe are amnesty. >> there's the national versus the local republican mindset and in dan ball's new book, even romney advisers and i think romney...
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taking a jab at mitt romney. again i think furthering the problem, showing there's divisions within the party, divisions with their top candidate -- >> there are divisions, harold, in every party. i mean, this is part of the process. democrats lost five out of six presidential elections and eventually they figured it out. they went for a southern, moderate named bill clinton. they turned their back on hard left orthodoxy and they got a guy who was liberal in many ways, but also pragmatic enough to do what reagan did, pull americans a little left back to the center. that's what republicans have to get somebody who's conservative that can appeal to the middle. >> the question i have for you is, you look at those elements and there are a lot of parallels between what democrats are faced with in the late '80s and early '90s, how do you believe republicans, maybe the current republican leadership in the house and maybe the senate, those especially those looking to run for president a new years down the road, how do yo
taking a jab at mitt romney. again i think furthering the problem, showing there's divisions within the party, divisions with their top candidate -- >> there are divisions, harold, in every party. i mean, this is part of the process. democrats lost five out of six presidential elections and eventually they figured it out. they went for a southern, moderate named bill clinton. they turned their back on hard left orthodoxy and they got a guy who was liberal in many ways, but also pragmatic...
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they're not going to be excited about mitt romney. they're not gentleman to be excited -- >> remember how close it was. >> 58% of the voters were suburban in there we could have said a year ago, after they decided, bob, to pick their candidates by a caucus, instead of an open primary, this was going to happen in northern virginia. >> but there were 2 million voters yesterday and mcauliffe won by 56,000. that's not much at all. and it could have gone the other way. i think it's going to be fascinating to watch mcauliffe as governor. here's this guy who was always the fundraiser. >> we love terry. >> the joke back in the clinton days was mcauliffe is so good as fund raidsing, he must be a republican. >> oh, there you go. so now to new jersey. the "wall street journal" editorial board writes this, the portense of election 2013 on christie, one mistake for the gop to avoid casting is mr. christie as a "moderate" because he won twice in a democratic state t. governor has by and large governed as a conservative reformer. he vetoed a tax inc
they're not going to be excited about mitt romney. they're not gentleman to be excited -- >> remember how close it was. >> 58% of the voters were suburban in there we could have said a year ago, after they decided, bob, to pick their candidates by a caucus, instead of an open primary, this was going to happen in northern virginia. >> but there were 2 million voters yesterday and mcauliffe won by 56,000. that's not much at all. and it could have gone the other way. i think it's...
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. >> mike during this vast election cycle, i said i was voting for mitt romney but i was critical of the press conference a day after a soldier was killed overseas. that happened throughout the entire campaign. no self reflection. the romney people were saying we screwed up but no self reflection for a party that had an 18% approval rating. the tea party has 9%. we are run by a small group. it's destroying our electoral prospects. >> one of the issues that we are talking about is the currency of language today. both in politics and in the country. the currency of language you hear on the radio or you hear on tv or on the floor of the united states senate or house of representatives. it's polarized. you are on that side and i'm on this side. they said it's like watch alg small wave build and it's this undefinable fear of government. some people, not a lot. it's out there. it's almost combined with you are not coming to take my guns. the government is not going to take my gun. you particular my house. you took the factory out of town where i grew up. you took my parents's job. you are
. >> mike during this vast election cycle, i said i was voting for mitt romney but i was critical of the press conference a day after a soldier was killed overseas. that happened throughout the entire campaign. no self reflection. the romney people were saying we screwed up but no self reflection for a party that had an 18% approval rating. the tea party has 9%. we are run by a small group. it's destroying our electoral prospects. >> one of the issues that we are talking about is...